The Forrest City times., 1887-11-19

glorious cadence. Then Bach turned and gave | sslutation fo the host who had invited him' SIN A TERRIBLE DiscorD.
 | But the worst of all discofds s moral dls- | cord. If society and the world ere panfuiy | discordant to imperfect man, what must they
 be to a perfect God. People try to dehne Nha. sin is. It seems to mo that sin is getting out | Of Harmony with God; disagreement Nith | His holiness, with His purity, with HIS love, | with His commands, our will clashing Wltn | His will, the finite dsshng against the lnhnite.
 the frail against the puissant the c:eateo l against Creator. If thousand musicians, | with flute and cornet- piston and trumpet l and violoncello and hautbois and trombone and all the wind and striDged instruments
 that ever gathered in Dusseldorf jubilee
 should resolve that they would play out oi | tune and put concord 10 the rack, and make | the place wild with shrieking and grating ana
 rasping sounds, they could not make such | pand emonium as that which rags in slniui l soul when God listens to the play or l,s
 thoughts, passions and eInOtions-r.dlscor | lifelong diseord. maddening dlscord. The world | pays more for discord than it does Tor conson- | auce High prices have been paid Tor muslc- | One man gave S220 to hear the Swedish songs- | tress in New York, and another s6So 10 near
 her in Boston, and smother soog to near her i5 ih l | for sweet sounds, but far more has been paiu | for discord The Crimesn war cost VI, w. | O00. 900, and our Amerian civii war over h,ne %
 and a half billion dollars, and the war deots | of professed Christian nations are sDout | sl5. .6OO. OOOO00 The world pays for this req
 ticket which admits 1t to the saturnalis or broken bones and death agonies ana ues- i troyed cities and ploughed graves and crushed
 hearts, any amount of money Satan asks. DIS | cordl dlscordl MAKING PERFECT HARMONY.
 But have to tell you that the song that the
 morning stars sang together at the laying of | the worlds corner stone Is to Do resumed | again. Mozart's greatest overture was com | posed: one night when he was several times | oyerpowered with sleep. and artists say they can tell the places in the music where ne was falling asleep add the places where he was awakened So the overture of the morning stars, spoken of in my text has been asleep, but 1t will awaken and be more grandly re- newed by the evening stars of the worlds existence than by the morning stars, and the
 yespcrs will be sweeter than the maths. The
 work of all good men and women, and Of all
 good churches and all reform associations Is
 10 bring the race back to the origional har-
 mony. The rebellious heart to be attuned, so-
 cisl life to be attuned, commercial ethics to be atfuned, interna tlonality to be attuned, hemi- spheres to be sttuned. But by what force and fin what wayl
 In ol len times the choristers had a tuning
 
 on the back of pew or music rack and put IL to the ear and then start the tune and all tho other voices would join. In modern orchestra the leader has a complete instrument, rightly attuued, aBd he sounds that and all the other performers turn the keys Of their instruments to make them correspond, and sound the bow over the string and listen, and sound out over again until all the keys are screwed 10 con- cert pitch and the discords melt into ona great symphony, and the curtain hoists, and q ha.A attIt Fa1 with Schumann's Paradise and the Peri" or Rossini's 'Stsbat Mater" or Bach's "Magn ifi- cat" in D, or Gounod's Redemption"
 CHRIST THE GREAT LEADER.
 Now, our world can never Dc attuned by an imperfect instrument. Even Cremons would not do Heaven has ordained the only instrument. and tt-is made out Of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are imported voices, captatrices of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with ''Gory 10 God iu the highest and on earth peace, good will to men," Lest we start too far of, and get lost in the genersli- ties, we had better begin with ourselves, get our own heart and life in harmony with the eternal Christ o, for his almighty spirit to attune us, to chord our will with His will to modulate our life with his life, and bring us into unison with all that Is pure, and self-sa rifcug and heavenly. The strings of our ns- ture are all broken and twisted. and the bow
 Is SO slack 1t cannot evoke anything mellifu- ous The instrument made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by influences worldly and demoniac. o, master hand of Christ restore this split and fractur- ed, and despoiled, and unstrung nature until first it shall wall out for our sin and then thrill with divine pardon.
 The whole world must also be attuned by the same power. A few days ago was in the Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they have
 never had strike. Complete harmony be.
 tween labor and capital, the operatives of
 scores of years in tbeir beautiful homes near bf the mansions of the manufacturers, whose
 invention and Chr stian behavior made the great enterprise. So all the world over labor and capital will be brought into euphony. GRAND FUTURE PROMISED.
 So all social life will be attuned by the gospel harp. There VIII be as many classes in society as now, but the classes will not be l,regulated by birth, or wealth, or accident but by the scale of virtue and beBeyolencc, and people viii be assigned 10 their places as good, or very good, CT most excellent So, also, commercial life will be atuned, and ] there will be twelve in every dozeD, sixteen ounces in every pound, and apples at the bottom Of the barrel will be sound as those on the top, and silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest people more than the light price because others will not pay, and goods will come for you cores sp0nding with the sample by which you purchased them, and coffee will not be chichCried, aud sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not be ciialked, and adulteration of food will be a. state's prison 0ffcnse. Aye, all
 things shall be attuned Elections in Eng land and the United States will no mOre be grand carnival of defamation and scuniity, l but the elevation of righteous men in right eous way.
 fn the sixteenth century the singers called tue Fischer brothers reached the lowest bass ever recorded, and tbe highest note ever trlled was by La Bastardella, and Catiliniis voice had compass of three and half oc- taves; but Christianity is more wOnderfui; for
 1t runs all up and down the greatest heights
 and the deepest depths of the worlds neees-
 sity, and 1t will compass everything and bring
 1t in accord with the song which the morning
 stars sang at the laying of the worlds corner
 stone All the sacred music in homes, and concert halls and churches tends toward this eonsummation. Make it more and more
 hearty slng in your families. Sing in your places of business. If we with proper spirit
 use these faculties We are rehearsing for the skies.
 GRAND HYMNS IN HEAVEN.
 Heaven Is to nate new song. entirely new sang but should not wonder fl, as some times on earth s tune is fashioned out of many tunes or it is one tune with the yaria. tiOns, so some of the songs Of the redeemed mag have playing through them the songs of earth, and n0u thrilling as coming through the great anthem of the saved, accompanied by hstpers with their harps aud trumpeters with their trumpets, we hear some or the strains of Antioch, and Mount Psgah, and torgration, and Lenox and St. Martins and Fountain snd Ariel and Oid Hundred. How they bring back t0'tbud the praying circles and communion days, and the Christinas festi- vaIs, and the church worship in which on earth we mingled. ] have no idea that when we bid farewell to earth we are 10 bid farewell to all these graDd old gospel hymns which
 melted and fapturcd our souls for so many years Now my friends, fl sin is dlscord and fehteoCsness i is harmony, let Us get out of
 the one aud enter the other. After our dread
 ful civil war was over, and in the summer Of
 1869 great national peace jubilee was held
 in Boston, and, AS an elder of this church had
 been bon0red bV the selection Of some of his